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Staff Solutions Architect - EMEA(m/w/x)
Designing customer architectures for infrastructure platforms in the Agentic AI Era, leveraging Kubernetes and Crossplane. Platform engineering/SRE background with IDP building essential, German language proficiency a plus. Focus on Intelligent Control Planes technology.
Requirements
- Code writing/maintenance for Kubernetes API (operators, controllers, add-ons)
- Production Kubernetes deployment/workload management
- Platform engineering/SRE background with IDP building
- German language proficiency (plus)
- Deep understanding of scaled, reliable services/infrastructure in multiple cloud providers
- Excellent communication, engagement, leadership, and presentation skills
- Customer/open source community technical issue resolution
- Deployment/integration of Cloud Native/CNCF projects in production
- Incorporation of modern operational/delivery tools (HashiCorp, CI/CD, IaC, GitOps)
- Programming skills in a modern language (Go ideal)
- Ability to work closely with diverse teams
- Successful management of multiple projects/priorities in dynamic environment
- Excitement/comfort in defining/scaling engineering/customer solutions
- Crossplane experience (highly preferred)
- Active involvement/contribution to upstream Kubernetes community
- History of tech conference speaking, technical writing, and/or open source contribution
- Experience in startup/distributed/remote teams and understanding of startup challenges
- Current CKA or CKAD certification
Tasks
- Partner with pre-sales for customer implementation
- Understand customer environments and requirements
- Identify customer platform needs
- Design delightful architectures and solutions
- Ensure successful adoption of Upbound and Crossplane
- Conduct technical discovery for engagements
- Scope customer engagements
- Contribute to authoring Statements of Work
- Troubleshoot and resolve Crossplane deployment issues
- Improve customer deployments through coding
- Fix bugs in Upbound and Crossplane products
- Build scoped features for Upbound and Crossplane
- Build cloud-native reference platforms
- Maintain cloud-native reference platforms
- Collaborate cross-departmentally for solutions
- Resolve complex scenarios and integration issues
- Act as Upbound's technical voice to customers
- Represent customer needs internally
- Influence the product roadmap
- Advise customers on ongoing technical solutions
Work Experience
- approx. 1 - 4 years
Education
- Vocational certificationOR
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- German – Business Fluent
Tools & Technologies
- Kubernetes API
- Kubernetes
- IDP
- CNCF projects
- HashiCorp
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- IaC
- GitOps
- Go
- Crossplane
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Staff Solutions Architect - EMEA(m/w/x)
Designing customer architectures for infrastructure platforms in the Agentic AI Era, leveraging Kubernetes and Crossplane. Platform engineering/SRE background with IDP building essential, German language proficiency a plus. Focus on Intelligent Control Planes technology.
Requirements
- Code writing/maintenance for Kubernetes API (operators, controllers, add-ons)
- Production Kubernetes deployment/workload management
- Platform engineering/SRE background with IDP building
- German language proficiency (plus)
- Deep understanding of scaled, reliable services/infrastructure in multiple cloud providers
- Excellent communication, engagement, leadership, and presentation skills
- Customer/open source community technical issue resolution
- Deployment/integration of Cloud Native/CNCF projects in production
- Incorporation of modern operational/delivery tools (HashiCorp, CI/CD, IaC, GitOps)
- Programming skills in a modern language (Go ideal)
- Ability to work closely with diverse teams
- Successful management of multiple projects/priorities in dynamic environment
- Excitement/comfort in defining/scaling engineering/customer solutions
- Crossplane experience (highly preferred)
- Active involvement/contribution to upstream Kubernetes community
- History of tech conference speaking, technical writing, and/or open source contribution
- Experience in startup/distributed/remote teams and understanding of startup challenges
- Current CKA or CKAD certification
Tasks
- Partner with pre-sales for customer implementation
- Understand customer environments and requirements
- Identify customer platform needs
- Design delightful architectures and solutions
- Ensure successful adoption of Upbound and Crossplane
- Conduct technical discovery for engagements
- Scope customer engagements
- Contribute to authoring Statements of Work
- Troubleshoot and resolve Crossplane deployment issues
- Improve customer deployments through coding
- Fix bugs in Upbound and Crossplane products
- Build scoped features for Upbound and Crossplane
- Build cloud-native reference platforms
- Maintain cloud-native reference platforms
- Collaborate cross-departmentally for solutions
- Resolve complex scenarios and integration issues
- Act as Upbound's technical voice to customers
- Represent customer needs internally
- Influence the product roadmap
- Advise customers on ongoing technical solutions
Work Experience
- approx. 1 - 4 years
Education
- Vocational certificationOR
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- German – Business Fluent
Tools & Technologies
- Kubernetes API
- Kubernetes
- IDP
- CNCF projects
- HashiCorp
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- IaC
- GitOps
- Go
- Crossplane
About the Company
Upbound
Industry
IT
Description
Upbound pioneers infrastructure platforms for the Agentic AI Era, empowering teams with Intelligent Control Planes based on Kubernetes and Crossplane.
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